• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Worlds biggest baby, somehow given the reigns of one of the most powerful countries in the world a second time throws tantrum over being called out for being a piece of shit.

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    Is this the ad with the Reagan verbatim quote?

    Watched it in the world series tonight. Laughed my ass off with others around being mostly quiet. Lmaooo they literally quoted Reagan, with original audio of Reagan himself (and a brief video clip at the end) giving a formal speech about how bad tariffs are.

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    So, he’s back to breaking the law again? He can’t impose tariffs on Canadian goods that are protected under the USMCA.

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        This came up a few months ago when people were saying “But wait, congress has power to set tariff policy”. That was true until the Smoot-Hawley act that is often blamed (probably correctly) for triggering or at least greatly exacerbating the Great Depression. After that, congress ceded tariff control to the executive. AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping congress from taking it back, but I can’t see the current congress doing that.

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          there seem to be about five provisions (according to politifact) trump can use but according to the constitution tariff power lies with congress and i cant imagine any of these provisions were originally supposed to enable the president to enact tariffs quite in the way he does. I mean its obvious he is getting away with it so its a moot point either way but we can at least vent i guess.

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    And just like that the world discovered the true identity of snowflake.